>>56451520his foot is broken
Left leg is hoopster from the knee down
>>56451520Champion casually Loses her first battle with her ace early in the story
>>56451520I like that one fanart of her getting fucked full-nelson style by Leon
>>56451520while I find her boring I'll say I'd rather not have the champion show up all over the game and then do a "surprise! I was the champion all along! :D" like cynthia did.
>>56451599> I'd rather not have the champion show up all over the game and then do a "surprise! I was the champion all along! :D" like cynthia did.]I thought that was more of a Lance thing, you spend the meat of the team rocket plot with him then find out out of nowhere that he is champion. does Cynthia even show up that much before the champion fight?
>>56451620Not that anon, but Cynthia shows up a lot before her fight, atleast in Platinum. Gives you an egg, sends you on an errand to her grandma, goes with you in the distortion world, etc.
>>56451520top tier design in a not well developd game
>>56451520>Boring cameo in cafe in early game>Some people in the street hyping her up to be some amazing person despite looking and acting bland as shit>Then absolutely nothing about her throughout the rest of the game>Champion battle: she just pops up again>Has a bunch of pushover pokes and gets destroyed>Disappears againNothingburger champ
>>56451599Steven was way worse about that and you know it.
>>56451520Forgettable because she does jack shit in the story. Absolutely fucking nothing. I don't know how they fucked up after Unova made their champions and even gym leaders actual presences in the story
>>56451520Cynthia's GF.
>>56451599You mean Iris right?
>>56451714>Left: superior Ashkenazi goddess>Right: Fr*nch closet lesbian
>>56451717>>56451728This. Basically all the same reasons Cynthia sucks.
>>56451749Cynthia is White.
>>56451774Maybe before Volo revealed his true nature as a merchant, it gave more context to Cynthia’s lineage, reflecting her as the Ashkenazi goddess she truly is.
>>56451520They turned her into a punching bag for Leon in the anime
>>56451520Weak team and a diminished role. It really felt like her a Sycamore were meant to be more involved with the plot.
>>56451757? Cynthia is at least a story presence, hell she goes into the Distortion World with you
>>56451813>Cynthia is at least a story presenceno she isn't
Ugly hair.
>>56451520xy was unfinished
>>56451520not her fault, no champion could live up to Cynthia
>>56451714>the least mentally ill kalosfag
Her team is very weak defensively. Gourgeist? Grass/Ghost??? Too many weaknesses.Aurorus/Tyrantrum which are both weak to Steel or Fighting.Hawluchs and Goodra are both weak to the new Fairy Type.Just very unbalanced. Masuda simply overcorrected on the problem of 2000s babies losing to Cynthia. It's a small tragedy that Champions can't be hard anymore.
>>56451714desu i like Diantha more than Shillthia now
>>56452964Kalosfags broke from all the bullying of their shitty tech demo "games"
>>564515203 words:short grey hair
>>56451520Dev-time was spent on the same Pokemon and references to locations you've seen for decades instead of anything new to justify this new entry into the franchise
>>56451520Watch them make her ancestor a million times more developed in Z-A
is she like 40 or something?
>>56451728>Unova made their champions and even gym leaders actual presences in the storyIris has the same amount of appearances before the league in B2W2 as Diantha does in XY.
>>56452976>Aurorus/TyrantrumSeemed like a random pick since the first rock-type gym guy already used them.
>>56454562>Voring someone makes your tits and ass biggerHow the fuck does that works?
>>56453099thissame reason DPPt sucks
>>56455022honestly, it could be better if kingambit was geeta's ace instead
>>56451620>does Cynthia even show up that much before the champion fight?Cynthia constantly shows up to use you as her personal diary. It's commonly joked that she's stalking the player, because there's no real reason for why she just happens to be where you are as often as she is.
>>56452976There's nothing inherently wrong with the Pokemon on an individual basis; it's just that stacking them all lead to heavy weakness overlap. The only Pokemon I really think they should replace is Tyrantrum. Aurorus' type is absolute garbage, but it doesn't provide a third Fairy and Ice weakness. I'm not sure what to replace Tyrantrum with, though; they clearly wanted Diantha to have a Gen 6 centric team, but most of the other new Pokemon were used by the Elite Four just before her.
>>56456392So, here's how I'd redo the Elite Four and Diantha. Note that this only takes into account how Pokemon were set up in XY, so no Abilities or Mega Evolutions introduced in later games.>[Malva]: Mega Charizard Y, Pyroar, Chandelure, TalonflameI felt Malva's picks were mostly fine. If Torkoal had gotten Drought in XY instead of SM, I would've kept it.>[Siebold]: Politoed (Drizzle), Clawitzer, Mega Blastoise, BarbaraclePolitoed was added to give rain. Gyarados was swapped for Blastoise to avoid redundancy, since Lysandre already used it and its Mega Evolution.>[Wikstrom]: Klefki, Probopass, Mega Aggron, AegislashScizor was swapped for Aggron as a super bulky opponent, since that seemed to be the theme for Wikstrom.>[Drasna]: Dragalge, Druddigon, Mega Ampharos, NoivernUnfortunately, Altaria's Mega Evolution was only introduced in ORAS, so I had to cheat a little with Ampharos.>[Diantha]: Hawlucha, Azumarill, Aurorus, Gourgeist, Goodra, Mega GardevoirAzumarill cuts down on overlap, while also further showing off Pokemon whose types changed in this gen.
>>56451520The game making her completely irrelevant.
>>56456866This. Same reason Cynthia sucks.
>>56456873Cynthia is probably one of the most overrated fictional characters of all time, but there's still more to her than Diantha.
>>56456879> but there's still more to her where
Cynthia is a goddess and perfectno wonder lesser fans of other champions seethe and cope
>>56456881she's a lore fag and she has a grandma.
>>56455022pajeeta makes diantha look good
>>56451520women
>>56453006is this real
>>56451749Cynthia's not Ash, Ken or a Nazi
>>56451520Old grannyAlso france/kalos is shit
>>56451714All the few good things (Mega Evolution, Diantha, AZ, new dex) were completely wasted on Gen 6.
>>56458694yes
>>56460161What good things?
>>56451520how old is diantha even supposed to be, xy makes it seem like she's 40 but she's barely 20 something in the anime its confusing
>>56456392>Aurorus' type is absolute garbageAurorus deserves better.>pic related just happened
>>56451520Should've been a moon alien
>>56462411You're thinking of the Indian in Spain.
What went so right?
>>56451757>>56454999>>56456873>repeatedly argues XY is a shallow copy of previous games>also gets angry when people call XY a shallow copy of previous games
>>56460161they wanted to do the same thing as the gen 3, saving the good stuff for the third version, but you know what happened
>>56451620There's no reason for the player to think that Lance's position has changed in the 3 years between games at that point in gen 2's story, he only goes after Team Rocket and grills Silver for being an asshole after thrashing him.You can tell Cynthia is the Champion because there's no one else it could be, the games want you to recognize who the Champion is so they aren't just some random person you don't care about, the Battle Frontier guy is Barry's dad, "Cynthia" doesn't match the planet theming of the Galactic Admins names and there's no way she's just an archeologist with that outfit.Funnily enough, Steven being just a random guy who's into rocks and the son of the Devon President in Emerald is pretty subversive since he still makes for a wicked hard fight, as an added bonus it's just funny that this guy quit his job to spend even more time with rocks when he isn't even a Rock-type Champion, despite his surname literally being fucking STONE.
>>56464546true, DPPt is a shallow copy of previous games
>>56451520>he say as he shill alder
